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IANTHE

COM you, Ianthe, little troubles pass ke little ripples down a sunny river; our pleasures spring like daisies in the grass, ut down, and up again as blithe as ever.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

TO MISS CREUZE, ON HER

BIRTHDAY

How many between east and west
Disgrace their parent earth,

Whose deeds constrain us to detest
The day that gave them birth!

Not so when Stella's natal morn
Revolving months restore,

We can rejoice that she was born,

And wish her born once more!

WILLIAM COWP

DIRCE

STAND close around, ye Stygian set,
With Dirce in one boat convey'd!

Or Charon, seeing, may forget

That he is old and she a shade.

WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR

TRUTH

PERMIT me, Madame, to declare
That I never will compare

Eyes of yours to starlight cold,
Or your locks to sunlight's gold,
Or your lips, I'd have you know,
To the crimson Jacqueminot.

Stuff like that's all very fine
When you get so much a line;
Since I don't, I scorn to tell
Flattering lies. I like too well
Sun and stars and Jacqueminot

To flatter them, I'd have you know.

OLIVER HERFOR

ENEX'S SOLILOQUY ON HIS

YOUTHFUL IDOL

PLATONIC friendship, at your years, Says Conscience, should content ye: Nay, name not fondness to her ears The darling's scarcely twenty.

Yes; and she'll loathe me, unforgiven,
To dote thus out of season;

But beauty is a beam from heaven
That dazzles blind our reason.

I'll challenge Plato from the skies,
Yes, from his spheres harmonic,
To look in Mary Campbell's eyes
And try to be Platonic.

THOMAS CAMPBELL

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